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NASA's Moon Problem: What the New Glenn Explosion Really Exposes A rocket exploding on the pad is bad. A rocket exploding on the pad when two of the most consequential space programs of the next decade are counting on it is a different category of problem entirely. per TechCrunch, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during testing at Launch Complex 36 in Florida — a dramatic hardware failure that lands at arguably the worst possible moment for Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company. NASA's lunar ambitions under Artemis are already running behind, and Amazon's Kuiper constellation is staring down SpaceX's Starlink with…